Virtual event with Bonn Water Network partners.

by Pallav Das (Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group)

Zoom lecture at Dies Academicus of Bonn University

by Prof. Matthew McCabe (Professor of Remote Sensing and Water Security, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Virtual kick-off event.

ZEF will host an international academic conference on “Agricultural knowledge and knowledge systems in post-Soviet societies” on September 12 – 13, 2013. International experts will meet to discuss issues such as cultures of knowledge production and sharing.

The first major Crossroads Asia conference on "Figurations of Mobility" will be held from November 22-24, 2012 in Berlin. This conference aims to provide a forum to discuss approaches of figurational sociology with the objective to re-conceptualize Area Studies. Theoretical advantages and shortcomings will be related to concepts such as networks or translocality and empirical case studies.

The competence network 'Crossroads Asia' convened an international conference on 'Figurations of Mobility' in Berlin on November 22-24. Conrad Schetter, acting director of ZEF, chaired the kick-off panel on figurational analysis within the context of area studies.

This workshop at ZEF continued the research efforts on urban climate change adaptation within the International Consortium for Comparative Water and Development Studies (ICCWaDS), in which ZEF has been collaborating with SOAS in London and the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, since 2011.

ZEF participated in the 2nd Scientific Conference of the UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) on the "Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas", held in Bonn, April 9-12, 2013.